Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Men of Baker! Women of Baker! Wee bonnie babies of Baker! What's all this about being on page 2? We are not a page 2 thread! Chief1332 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 My take on the current state of Bakerdom: Highest-graded copies go from strength to strength. Same with keyist of keys (CL 25, GCE 12) even in lower grades. But offseting the high prices, from a collecting perspective, is the flood into the market of mid-grade and lower copies of most issues. Possible, I think, to quickly put together a pretty good chunk of the great man's St John run without breaking the bank. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2023 One of my favorite non-romance Baker St John covers. The Baker Wild Boys seem undervalued, although I think all the covers are well done. MBFan, comicnoir, jimjum12 and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/10/2023 at 12:14 PM, Changer said: 6,600.00 5,520.00 $4,560.00 $4,560.0 $3,840.00 $3,600.00 $2,640.00 $2,640.00 $2,220.00 $2,160.00 $1,320.00 $1,320.00 $1,200.00 dbl cover $1,140.00 $1,020 Sold For: $1,020.00 Sold For: $1,020.00 Sold For: $900.00 Sold For: $870.00 Kind of middling prices, I think. The DS 30 price seems low. I used to think of this a really tough book but a lot of mid to low grade copies have surfaced. Still nothing above 6.5, though, unless there's a raw sitting in someone's collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/10/2023 at 12:08 PM, Changer said: some highlights! Sold For: $81,000.00 Sold For: $21,600.00 Sold For: $19,200.00 Sold For: $19,200.00 Sold For: $14,400.00 Sold For: $10,800.00 Of these, the All-Top surprised me the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/5/2023 at 11:51 AM, szav said: They were so close on this one that I subbed too...at least they got the Canadian Edition part right. Are there many Canadian editions of St John books? I know there was a guy on eBay who was selling some for a while, but I don't often see them. Given how iffy St John's circulation was in the U.S, it's a little surprising he sold enough in Canada to justify the printing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/4/2023 at 6:44 PM, MBFan said: If you missed this copy of Cinderella Love #25 for $3550 on eBay, you have a second chance! Before the book could even be shipped, the winner jacked up the price and put it on CLink for $8500. It was funny tracking that book on eBay. After failing to sell it at $5K or something, didn't he jack it up for awhile to $10K? Or maybe I'm thinking of another book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 (edited) On 2/28/2023 at 7:25 PM, Sqeggs said: Are there many Canadian editions of St John books? I know there was a guy on eBay who was selling some for a while, but I don't often see them. Given how iffy St John's circulation was in the U.S, it's a little surprising he sold enough in Canada to justify the printing. I've owned a few Canadian St. John's, but I'm in Canada, although I usually get them through U.S. dealers like Harley. They are actually Superior Comics in Toronto that bought the rights to American material. St. John's did not publish up here. Edited March 1, 2023 by comicnoir jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2023 I was thinking the other day about @Dr. Love post from a few years back about how there may be a significant number of ungraded Church copies of Baker St John books. I think we found HA sales of raw copies of TAR 1 and 2, which, so far as I know, haven't been graded. But can't think of any graded copies coming to market recently. I have a couple. I think that's it for me unless I'm forgetting one. jimjum12, pmpknface, PeterPark and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 7:29 PM, comicnoir said: I've owned a few Canadian St. John's, but I'm in Canada, although I usually get them through U.S. dealers like Harley. They are actually Superior Comics in Toronto that bought the rights to American material. St. John's did not publish up here. Interesting. Makes sense that St John would sell the rights. Iirc the guy on eBay selling Canadian editions mainly had the early photo cover issues. I believe he was also located in Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 7:34 PM, Sqeggs said: I was thinking the other day about @Dr. Love post from a few years back about how there may be a significant number of ungraded Church copies of Baker St John books. I think we found HA sales of raw copies of TAR 1 and 2, which, so far as I know, haven't been graded. But can't think of any graded copies coming to market recently. I have a couple. I think that's it for me unless I'm forgetting one. There is a Church Canteen Kate 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2023 I do have a Baker Church non-St John. Might have one or two others, but I can't quite remember. PeterPark, jimjum12, Chief1332 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 7:36 PM, comicnoir said: There is a Church Canteen Kate 1. Did not know that. I have 9.4 copy of Canteen Kate 1, although I can't find the scan. Is the Church copy the 9.6? jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Per Chuck's catalog, all three issues of Canteen Kate were in the collection and he graded them all NM+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post adamstrange Posted March 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 7:18 PM, Sqeggs said: One of my favorite non-romance Baker St John covers. The Baker Wild Boys seem undervalued, although I think all the covers are well done. They would be worth more if they were "Wild Girls". Randall Dowling, Point Five, Yorick and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 7:42 PM, Sqeggs said: Per Chuck's catalog, all three issues of Canteen Kate were in the collection and he graded them all NM+. I only know this because I just looked it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 7:40 PM, Sqeggs said: Did not know that. I have 9.4 copy of Canteen Kate 1, although I can't find the scan. Is the Church copy the 9.6? Church copy graded out 9.0. On Ha.com archives. Seven Seas 6 has a Church copy. 9.4. Sqeggs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Just shows that you should never doubt @Dr. Love! Looking through Chuck's catalog--which, of course, I should have done before beginning to post about this--shows that there were a lot of Bakers in the Church collection. Looks like Chuck graded about two-thirds NM or so and the rest in the VG/FN range. The latter books Edgar presumably bought used. So, there may well be ungraded raw high-grade Church books or some of the high-grade slabbed Bakers may be unrecognized Church books or maybe some of both. Even more likely that some of the mid-grade books were slabbed without having the ped noted. The WTR 7 I posted earlier was graded NM by Chuck. Of course, it may have knocked about a bit before it was graded. He graded the Hawk 11 as a FN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 8:05 PM, comicnoir said: Church copy graded out 9.0. On Ha.com archives. Seven Seas 6 has a Church copy. 9.4. Looks like Edgar had the whole SS run. I used to own the 1, CGC 9.8. Only the covers of the 4 and 6 appeal to me. I did eventually pick up a nice copy of the 5 (not the Church copy) but I think Baker struggles with profiles, and I don't much like that cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 The WTR 7 I posted earlier was graded NM by Chuck. Of course, it may have knocked about a bit before it was graded. He graded the Hawk 11 as a FN. That's quite the miscut for a NM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
